property request response response model schema schema server service service metadata Uniform Resource Identifier Abbreviated terms

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3.14 property

facet or attribute of an object, referenced by a name [ISO 19143]

3.15 request

invocation of an operation by a client [ISO 19128:2005]

3.16 response

result of an operation returned from a server to a client [ISO 19128:2005]

3.17 response model

schema defining the properties of each feature type that can appear in the response to a query operation NOTE This is the schema of feature types that a client can obtain using the DescribeFeatureType operation see Clause 9.

3.18 schema

formal description of a model [ISO 19101:2002] NOTE In general, a schema is an abstract representation of an objects characteristics and relations to other objects. An XML schema represents the relationship between the attributes and elements of an XML object for example, a document or a portion of a document.

3.19 schema

XML Schema collection of schema components within the same target namespace OpenGIS ® Engineering Report OGC 12-104r1 Copyright © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium. 8 [ISO 19136:2007] EXAMPLE Schema components of W3C XML Schema are types, elements, attributes, groups, etc.

3.20 server

particular instance of a service [ISO 19128:2005]

3.21 service

distinct part of the functionality that is provided by an entity through interfaces [ISO 19119:2005]

3.22 service metadata

metadata describing the operations and geographic information available at a server [ISO 19128:2005]

3.23 Uniform Resource Identifier

unique identifier for a resource, structured in conformance with IETF RFC 2396 [ISO 19136:2007] NOTE The general syntax is scheme::scheme-specified-part. The hierarchical syntax with a namespace is scheme:authoritypath?query 4 Conventions

4.1 Abbreviated terms

API Application Program Interface CRS Coordinate Reference System ER Engineering Report FES Filter Encoding Standard GML Geography Markup Language GMLSF Simple Feature Geography Markup Language OpenGIS ® Engineering Report OGC 12-104r1 Copyright © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium. 9 HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol KVP Keyword-Value Pair MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency UML Unified Modelling Language USGS United States Geological Survey WFS Web Feature Service WFS-C Cascading Web Feature Service XML Extensible Markup Language

4.2 UML notation